St. Gallenkapelle (Hanover)

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The St. Gallenkapelle (also: St. Galluskirche , Gallenkirche ) in the old town of Hanover was a Roman Catholic church and chapel dedicated to St. Gallus in the Middle Ages and the successor to the older castle chapel St. Galli . The location of the building was the corner of Burgstrasse and Bockstrasse (on today's Ballhofplatz ,) where the original Spittahaus later rose.

history

After the hated Lauenrode Castle was razed in 1371 by the citizens of Hanover, they only left the St. Gallus “Castle Chapel” until the Bishop of Minden allowed this to be demolished and rebuilt elsewhere in 1372. In fact, however, the new building was not built until 1446, this time within the city walls of Hanover at the Castle Road corner ball Hofstraße . When furnishing the furnishings, the citizens made use of the inventory of the former castle chapel, and the endowments for the main altar , the St. Gallenhof and the associated goods were transferred to the new chapel.

The building was donated , according to episcopal confirmation, by the patrician Ludolph Quirre (also: Ludolf Quirre (* around 1395 in Hanover; † 1463), who later brought it to the cathedral provost of Halberstadt through Hanoverian rope associations ). In the following year 1447, the church was consecrated by Bishop Heinrich von Minden . In the same year Gerd von Dassel received the Duke's permission to build a sexton according to Quirre's ideas and instructions .

For the later Bishop of Dorpat , Dietrich Reseler , a soul mass was celebrated annually one week after the Assumption (August 15) .

The chapel was used for church services for almost a century until the Reformation was introduced in Hanover in 1533. The founder's heirs reached an agreement with the city council of Hanover that they could enjoy their rights and income from the monastery for life, but then to the Mayor and the council should go.

The sovereign , who since the Reformation respected figures for life with the Chapel entitled goods belehnte , 1555 took up his rights to the magistrate on the condition that additional asset "to the glory of God and for the transport of [religious] studies use".

Then the building gradually fell into disrepair, the greater part in the middle of the Thirty Years War , on November 26, 1630 during a hurricane that also brought the spire of the Kreuzkirche to collapse.

Four decades later, the stones of the St. Gallus Chapel were used in 1670 to build the Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche in the Calenberger Neustadt .

Building description

The St. Gallen Chapel, built in 1446 on Burgstrasse and Ballhofstrasse, was a rectangular brick building . It had steep gables and turrets . The chronicler Johann Heinrich Redecker later drew a floor plan and a view of the building.

literature

  • Arnold Nöldeke : St. Gall's Chapel on the old town. In: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Hannover Vol. 1, H. 2, Teil 1, Hannover, Selbstverlag der Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ), p. 211f .
  • Brigide Schwarz : The St. Galli Collegiate Church in Hanover. A civil foundation from the late Middle Ages. In: Niedersächsisches Jahrbuch für Landesgeschichte , Vol. 68 (1996), ed. from the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen , pp. 107–135

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Arnold Nöldeke: St. Gallenkapelle in the old town (see literature)
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Görges , Ferdinand Spehr (ed.): Patriotic stories and memorabilia of the prehistoric times of the Braunschweig and Hanover regions , F. Wagner, Braunschweig 1881, p. 3 and others Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Helmut Plath : The early history. In: Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.), Dieter Brosius (collaborators): History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , Hanover: Schlütersche , 1992, ISBN 3- 87706-351-9 , here: p. 30; online through google books
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Friedrich Wilhelm Andreae: Chronicle of the royal city of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , Hildesheim, Finck, 1859, here: p. 5f .; online through google books ;
    • or reprint of the edition (in Fraktur) in the series Contributions to the history, regional and folklore of Lower Saxony and Bremen , Vol. 42, Hannover-Döhren: von Hirschheydt, 1977, ISBN 3-7777-0836-4
  5. ^ Ludwig Hoerner : View from Burgstrasse into Ballhofstrasse, around 1885. In: Hanover in early photographs. 1848-1910 . Schirmer-Mosel, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-921375-44-4 , p. 146f., With a photo by Georg Alpers, 26 cm × 20.7 cm, wet collodion process, albumin copy, owned by the Historisches Museum Hannover
  6. ^ Gerd Weiß, Marianne Zehnpfennig: Burgstrasse / Ballhofplatz. In: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / Architectural monuments in Lower Saxony / City of Hanover, Part 1, (Bd.) 10.1 , ed. by Hans-Herbert Möller , Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , Braunschweig / Wiesbaden: Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbh, 1983, ISBN 3-528-06203-7 , p. 61f .; as well as middle , in the addendum list of architectural monuments acc. § 4 ( NDSchG ) (except for architectural monuments of the archaeological monument preservation) , as of July 1, 1985, City of Hanover, Lower Saxony State Administration Office - Institute for Monument Preservation , p. 6f.
  7. ^ Arnold Nöldeke: St. Galli Castle Chapel at Lauenrode Castle. In: The art monuments of the province of Hanover, Vol. 1 ..., p. 209
  8. ↑ Brigide Schwarz: A "rope team" of clerics from Hanover in the late Middle Ages . In: Sources and research from Italian archives and libraries . Volume 81, 2001, pp. 256–277 ( online on Perspektiveia.net ).
  9. ↑ Thomas Schwark : RESELER, Dietrich. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 296; online through google books
  10. ↑ according to Nöldeke you can find out more about the "Geistlichen Lehnsregister" in the Hannoversche Geschichtsbl Blätter from 1905, p. 152.
  11. ↑ According to Nöldeke, illustrated in the Hannoversche Geschichtsbl Blätter from 1906, p. 156

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '20.4 "  N , 9 ° 43' 55.9"  E